I broke AppLovin's mediation cipher protocol

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I broke the cipher AppLovin wraps around its ad-mediation traffic and decrypted several thousand real requests captured on my consented mobile-traffic research panel. The conclusion is straightforward: The encrypted bid request carries enough device data to deterministically re-identify the same iPhone across apps from different publishers, even when user denies

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